1 Jul
2000
1 Jul
'00
1:56 a.m.
That's funny; I got my PhD out of showing other
engineers
and economists that the "simplifying assumptions" that they
make when designing deregulated electric power markets _in the
real world_ are, well, too simplistic. Electrons cannot be
bribed to obey economics rather than Kirchhoff, period.
Yet, that seems to be a hard point to sell to politicians
and economists.
Hoosier politicians have particular trouble understanding
that some things are simply beyond their control; at some
time (during the 1840s IIRC), a Hoosier legislator proposed
a bill to change the value of Pi to 3.0 since that would
make all calcultations involving Pi more easy to perform.
I'm really surprised it that it failed to pass...
-dq